11-letter words containing h, f
- schaffhouse — a town in N Switzerland, capital of Schaffhausen canton, on the Rhine. Pop: 33 628 (2000)
- schiff base — the product of the chemical association of an aldehyde with a primary amine
- school fees — the money paid for a person to go to school
- school fund — the money provided by a government or raised by parents and teachers to finance the running of a school
- school life — the period of your life that you spend at school
- schoolcraft — Henry Rowe [roh] /roʊ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1864, U.S. explorer, ethnologist, and author.
- schwarzkopf — Elisabeth, 1915–2006, German soprano, born in Poland.
- schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
- scuffle hoe — a hoe with a flat blade, pushed back and forth through the surface soil, as to weed
- sea feather — any of several anthozoans of the order Gorgonacea, in which the colony assumes a featherlike shape.
- second-half — happening in the second half of a game
- sefer torah — Sepher Torah.
- self-hating — harbouring feelings of self-hatred
- self-hatred — the feeling of one who hates; intense dislike or extreme aversion or hostility.
- self-speech — the faculty or power of speaking; oral communication; ability to express one's thoughts and emotions by speech sounds and gesture: Losing her speech made her feel isolated from humanity.
- self-taught — taught to oneself or by oneself to be (as indicated) without the aid of a formal education: self-taught typing; a self-taught typist.
- self-weight — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
- selfishness — devoted to or caring only for oneself; concerned primarily with one's own interests, benefits, welfare, etc., regardless of others.
- shaft alley — an enclosure on a ship for housing a propeller shaft and a walk for oilers.
- shaft grave — a grave consisting of a deep, rectangular pit with vertical sides, roofed over with a stone slab.
- shaft house — a structure housing machinery and other equipment at the top of a mine shaft.
- shaftesbury — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of, 1621–83, English statesman.
- share draft — an interest-bearing checking account in a credit union.
- sharefarmer — a farmer who pays a fee to another in return for use of land to raise crops, etc
- shear force — Shear force is force that makes one surface of a substance move over another parallel surface.
- shelf angle — an angle iron attached to or suspended from a girder to carry masonry or the ends of a number of joists.
- shelf paper — paper used for covering shelves, especially those of a cupboard or kitchen cabinet.
- shelf space — amount of room on shelves
- shelftalker — a promotional sign used by a retailer to draw attention to a featured product on the shelf
- shellflower — an eastern Asian plant, Alpinia zerumbet, of the ginger family, having pendulous clusters of fragrant white flowers with variegated markings.
- sheriffalty — shrievalty.
- sheriffwick — shrievalty.
- shield fern — any of numerous ferns of the genera Dryopteris and Polystichum, having shield-shaped indusia.
- shift gears — change speed manually in a vehicle
- shift lever — the lever mounted on the steering column or floor of a vehicle that enables the driver to shift gears.
- shifty-eyed — having the appearance of being dishonest, esp as signified by a lack of eye contact
- ship of war — warship.
- shirt front — the front of a shirt, especially the part that is exposed when a jacket or vest is worn.
- shock front — the forward boundary surface of a shock wave.
- shoofly pie — an open pie filled with a sweet crumb and molasses mixture and baked.
- shoplifting — to steal (merchandise) as a shoplifter.
- short field — the area of the infield between third base and second, covered by the shortstop.
- shot effect — random fluctuations in the emission of electrons from a hot cathode, causing a hissing or sputtering sound (shot noise) in an audio amplifier and causing snow on a television screen.
- showerproof — (of clothing, fabric, etc.) treated so as to resist rain; rainproof.
- showing-off — behaviour designed to impress people
- shuffle off — to walk without lifting the feet or with clumsy steps and a shambling gait.
- shufflingly — in the manner of a shuffle
- sight draft — a draft payable upon presentation.
- silk finish — the appearance of paint, fabric etc with regard to its smoothness and light reflecting quality
- singingfish — midshipman (def 3).